Interesting tid-bit from the article: “The riskiest category of borrowers has never been more leveraged. Companies with junk credit ratings are holding a record low $8 of debt for every $1 of cash, according to S&P.” also this “Ben Breitholtz, …
BAML has just called a peak in home sales! Citing declining affordability (makes sense given rising mortgage rates = headwind), housing market underperformance as economy grew (relative terms). @mtmalinen @LizAnnSonders @BValentineCFA @anilvohra69 @MI_Investments @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/gT8D3O5qXT — Taylor-Swift Yield Spread (@TayTayLLP) …
by Dennis Miller Diogenes would have a tough time finding an honest man announcing corporate earnings. In my article, Pepsi-Cola Hits The Spot?, I outlined how Pepsi trumpeted sales and profit increases, yet both actually declined. Investors have a difficult challenge managing …
A fresh piece of Citi research lands on bond market liquidity, which evokes a reminder of those days in late 2015 when a lot of attention was focused on how easy it was to buy and (more importantly) sell corporate debt. Back …
I posted this article when it first came out, but watching the Dick’s Sporting Goods hunting removal and now Nike choosing Kapurnik (dont care enough to learn his correct spelling) has reminded me. The Radical Future Of Branding https://www.fastcompany.com/3066981/the-radical-future-of-branding BRANDS …
From Birch Gold Group The U.S. Economy is approaching an “economic iceberg” in the form of an insane corporate debt load. Companies in the U.S. have taken on a record $6.3 trillion in debt. This is more corporate debt than 2007, just …
pic.twitter.com/PDSiYUEB2X — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) August 23, 2018 via Bloomberg: “Since March 2009, corporate America has bought back $4 trillion of its own shares and doled out $3 trillion to shareholders in dividends. That’s equivalent to about a third of the …
As we have been trying to tell you the real target for neoliberal corporate censorship was always the left. Now that they have conditioned public to accept it as a result of Russiagate, the left is in their crosshairs. https://t.co/zt2oMIbtDC …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdZkHQq6oWI&feature=youtu.be William Cohan discusses his New York Times story “The Big Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt” and why the debt market could cause the next economic crisis.
Most are familiar with this author of “A People’s History of the United States.” This quote is as relevant as ever. We police each other in ways that enable the few to control the many. h/t Air-Walker
Once you’re assisting with the US military’s drone program, receiving grants from the CIA and NSA for mass surveillance, or having your site’s content regulated by NATO’s propaganda arm, you don’t get to pretend you’re a private, independent corporation …
We’ve had a corporate coup d’etat. Our “leadership” is not beholden to the will of the people. No one on top ever goes to prison for what they do. We have a corrupt legal system. We have 5 major corporations …
by Martin Armstrong The the first debt bankruptcy of a major corporation in China has now taken place here on schedule in 2018. This first bankruptcy of a major corporation was due to over-indebtedness which occurred in the current year. The South …
by goldsilver The S&P 1,500 is a very broad index. In fact, its constituent companies represent over 90% of the entire market cap of all US stocks. And, a frighteningly increasing number of them are the walking dead. By design, the …
by WARREN MOSLER Still looks to me like the rate increases have offered some support for the economy and also pushed cpi higher? Interest income channels? Forward pricing channels? 😉 Corporate debt growth decelerating;
The big money behind the recent push for legalization has come, not from a grassroots movement, but from a few very wealthy individuals (ie George Soros) with links to Big Ag and Big Pharma. This article is a continuation …
by John Rubino Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a couple of charts that illustrate a relationship that’s not getting much media attention these days: The fact that tightening labor markets are forcing companies to raise wages, in the process squeezing their own …
by Jesse “Last year Simon & Schuster released The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives by the Pulitizer Prize winning journalist at ProPublica, Jesse Eisinger. If you read nothing else this summer, you should read this book followed …
by Charles Hugh-Smith We’re in the endgame of financialization and globalization, and it won’t be pretty for all the hostages of corporate profits. Though you won’t read about it in the mainstream corporate media, the nation is now hostage to …
The military industrial complex knows no party, as should be abundantly clear by the actions of the US military since the end of WWII. The burgeoning anti-war sentiment that was briefly trending during the Jr. Bush’s administration was successfully quashed …
The property bubbles in Australia and Canada are now popping, this will spread and cause problems in other countries. US manufacturing slumps as orders decline. The US has shipped the majority of manufacturing overseas, it will take time to bring …
Fake news: http://archive.is/jkTw4
Potential for ugly consequences, intended or otherwise, is rising. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Construction and infrastructure giant Ferrovial has announced it is moving its international HQ from the UK to low-tax haven Amsterdam because of Brexit. The …
by Thinker Why is the immigration system of the United States as corrupt as the feed the African campaigns? They both are using the poorest of the poor to profit off of and words that twist the truth, and those …
by Lynette Zang of ITM Trading As a Wall Street “Unicorn” it’s current market cap is $58.2 billion, even though there are losses as far as the eye can see. On June 12th the stock price surged 3.19% and is now up 40% …
Trust me I have zero sympathy: http://archive.is/uBDQm
by John Rubino Here’s one for the Clueless Regulator Hall of Fame: Corporate executives are using stock buybacks to pad their own compensation, according to SEC official (CNBC) – Share buybacks have surged since the Republican-backed tax bill made it …
by Harry Dent There’s no end to the insanity. Our central bankers and politicians are trying to keep this artificial bubble going at all costs. How shortsighted. How arrogant. How selfish! These politicians will be roasted in history, not just for …
by Jesse Excerpted below is a recent book review of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, by Quinn Slobodian, Harvard University Press. I have included a link to the entire article which I recommend reading if you …
From Birch Gold Group When an illusionist is performing a card trick and makes “your” card appear in your pocket, they’ve likely used a sleight of hand maneuver to pull it off. When big companies prop up the market with hype …